Week Five: Eisner & Thompson

For my reading this week I read Eisner's Contract with God and Thompson's Doot Doot Garden. I enjoyed the first story in Eisner's Contract with God about the man losing his daughter and breaks his contract with god that he made when he was young, then after breaking the contact becomes rich from lying and stealing and tends to only the needs of his own instead of others like in the past. He then realizes that all the money and his new mistress can't fill the emptiness inside of him that he once had with his daughter and most importantly the contact he had made between god and himself. After realizing this he repays what he had stolen and gives up his rights to the buildings he owns and strikes a new contact with god thinking to start over and have a new life and family that he once had only to suffer a heart attack and die. This story is ironic in the way that he leads a good life by god only to suffer but when he breaks the contract and leads a selfish life it seems he has it good and everything is going his way. Although he suffers he finds happiness with his belief in God and that is better then any material items he can ever acquire.

The other stories I read were a bit much with the violence and didn't enjoy reading them I stopped at maybe the 3rd story because it just wasn't my cup of tea. But one another note i really like how moody his work is and when there are parts where its rainy and wet I can put myself in that moment and feel what the characters are feeling. I could really feel Hersh's frustration with life and the conflicting emotions within himself. He is a truly relatable character and the subject matter of his inner turmoil with his religion is an issue that is also common for many people. 

Thompson's Doot Doot Garden was super awesome, I laughed the whole way through. I really like his cutesy style with undertones of crudeness. None of the stories really made sense but they were cute and had real life situations like friendship and loss, but not the chocking on a turd part, I'm quite sure that is not a common issue and at least I hope not. Anyway it was a really good read and would defiantly like to read more from him in the future.